Pebbles

Drug slang A regional term for crack cocaineMolecular biology M-203 mouse A mouse model for the human disease, cystinuria type 1, which has an induced missense mutation in the SLC3A1 gene. Its name derives from the impressive size of the calculi (stones) linked to the mutation

But a frightful storm drove his ship on to unknown shores, where most of his followers were put to death by the savages, and the Prince himself only managed to escape by making use of his magic pebble.

He took the pebble from his mouth, and flung himself at Rosalie's feet.

So he joyfully returned to his father's palace, where he found his friend the Fairy, who at once presented him with a magic pebble like his own.

In a moment he felt the Princess's hand in his, for she had always kept her magic pebble in her mouth, in spite of the prayers and entreaties of the Prince of the Air to make herself visible.

Not even an echo replied, and his voice died out in the empty vastness of surrounding space, like a pebble cast into a bottomless gulf; then, down he sank, fainting, on the sand, alone, amid the eternal silence of the desert.

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